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Watershed Management Projects
Watershed Education
Many Forest Service employees participate in local school activities and encourage natural resource management and scientific understanding in our youth.
Watershed Restoration is a way of improving streams or hillsides that are not functioning. Some existing watershed restoration projects include:
- Landslide seeding to initiate vegetation and reduce erosion
- Riparian thinning to promote regeneration of larger trees quicker in areas adjacent to the streams
- Stream projects to restore stream processes such as Fubar Creek in the Harris River Watershed where timber harvest and roads have altered the sediment regime.
Community Watershed Councils
The Forest Service on Prince of Wales Island actively participates on local Watershed Councils. Resource specialists have been available for technical support to local organized watershed councils.
Watershed Assessments
The Tongass National Forest performs watershed assessments and analysis in conjunction with planning projects to identify cumulative effects in our watersheds. These assessments identify existing condition, reference condition, and cumulative effects of those areas under analysis.
- Heceta EA
- North Thorne EIS
- Scratchings EIS
- Logjam EIS
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Harris River WA - Cobble LA
Visit the Tongass Schedule of NEPA Proposed Actions following the Thorne Bay and Craig Ranger District links for more information.
Watershed Monitoring Projects
The following projects are on-going to monitor and assess past and current management practices on watershed resources:
- Karst water quality and watershed delineation
- Low flow characteristics
- Temperatures regimes in selected streams
- Precipitation and soils moisture monitoring
USDA Forest Service - Tongass National Forest Accessibility Statement
Last Modified: July 11, 2007